Zerodha is a bootstrapped Indian brokerage and financial-services firm founded in August 2010 by brothers Nithin and Nikhil Kamath, credited with pioneering discount broking in India. It offers online trading in stocks, F&O, currencies, commodities, mutual funds and bonds via its Kite platform and has never raised external capital. It became a self-declared unicorn in 2020 through an ESOP buyback.
Online stock brokerage platform for trading and investing in stocks, futures, options, commodities, currency, ETFs, mutual funds, and bonds.
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